Over the past seven years, many Democratic politicians have been elevated as liberal heroes of “the Resistance.” Perhaps none may have been more overrated by a loving liberal media than Stacey Abrams.
Abrams rose to stardom during the 2018 election cycle, hailed as the Democrat who could flip Georgia blue while running for governor. She ended up losing in a Democratic-wave year and claiming that the election was stolen from her. She refused to concede, and yet she was not given the election-denier treatment as Republicans were after 2020. Instead, she was humored all the way to her 2022 campaign, in which she lost handily.
But the Abrams hype continued past her loss with praise for the “voting rights” group she started. She was praised for registering voters despite the fact that Georgia’s automatic voter registration system was behind those increasing numbers. But the unearned credit was not the worst of it: Abrams’s group, Fair Fight, is now $2.5 million in debt with just $1.9 million in cash available. The group filed lawsuits to peddle Abrams’s fabricated “voter suppression” narrative and is now broke and laying off staff.
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So, in the end, Abrams accomplished nothing. She lost two statewide races and then lost a bunch of money on terrible lawsuits. In the meantime, voter registration went up in Georgia thanks to its voting laws, not Abrams’s advocacy, and other Democrats flipped Georgia in 2020 and 2021 (with the help of former President Donald Trump) while she sat on the sidelines. The only thing Abrams achieved was normalizing denying election results right before Trump and Republicans decided to start doing the same.
That is what separates Abrams from other overrated Democratic politicians, such as former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke. Not only did Abrams accomplish nothing, but she actually damaged civic trust with the false claims she built her identity around. She is the most overrated politician to disgrace the political stage with her presence in the Trump era, and hopefully, this is the last we see of her.